關於 sitting is the new smoking中文 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

Comment être une véritable Française?
怎麼當真正的法國女人？
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我相信很多人平常都追蹤 My Little Paris幾天他們po了一篇我覺得很好玩的文章 (here: http://gofrenchyourself.mylittleparis.com/en/sample/62-58ca665c9c462)
以下 是本篇的內容 還有部分簡單的中文，原文是英文的, 形容40個方式讓妳根本就可以當法國女人~
是不是您的夢想 哈哈哈! 就算現在是 相信看完後，就不是了！

有一些 感覺還蠻對的 有一些只能形容巴黎女生 (其實 大部分都是吧
again.....)

我沒有翻譯全部 因為我翻譯得太爛 然後時間有限.... 有空再補一補好了.

然後這讓我想畫畫一張圖....
你們能在圖片中找到下面哪一些？
然後你們覺得裡面的那幾句 最有代表性?還是你們覺得 比這些有更形容法國女人的一些習慣嗎?

1.Drink your coffee sitting down, and out of an actual cup.
喝咖啡時, 坐下來 喝在真正的被子 (不要用帶走的紙杯) ☕️

2. Insist that you have 'almost no money left' when your friends invite you to a cocktail bar. Propose wine at yours.

3. Drink so much wine you spend the equivalent of 11 cocktails online.

4. Always carry a packet of tissues in your bag. 永遠都要帶一包衛生紙

5. Moisturize obsessively. 不要怕保濕

6. Spend a sixth of your income on scented candles. 把你6分之一的薪水花在有香味的蠟燭 🕯️

7. Order rosé in March like the brazen, untamable woman that you are.

8. Make the last item on your grocery list a gigantic bouquet of flowers. 去買菜時 在你的清單上的最後一行,寫”以大朵花”🌹

9. Learn how to express at least five different emotions using only one swear word. Putain. Putain! Putaaaaain. 學會用至少5種不同口腔說" putain" (大概是 "媽的"的意思 然後法國人隨時都是用它 能形容很多不一樣的情緒 )

10. Be suspicious of: politicians, dating apps, supermarket bread, overly-smiley people, any orange cheese that isn't mimolette, and cafés that serve more than two kinds of milk. Also: margarine.
懷疑所有的東西

11. Always assume people want your opinion. 一直認為大家需要您的意見

12. Ensure that at least 85% of what you say is accompanied by hand gestures. 百分之八十五 你講的話都要搭配手勢

13. Shoot an emphatic look of horror at any person who asks to meet for dinner before 8pm. 如果有人約你八點前吃晚餐 給他一個很惻隱的眼神(法國人晚上9才吃晚餐,好啦8點半左右 哈哈)

14. Have a favorite chef. 一定要有你最喜歡的廚師 🍳

15. And a favorite film director. 還有最喜歡的導演 🎬

16. Drink expensive wine alone as proof that you're a carefree bon vivant who'd rather be alone than settle for mediocre company (as opposed to just incredibly single.) 一個人的時候 喝很貴的紅酒 為了讓大家知道你甚麼都不管 只管快樂 然後你寧願以個人喝也不要有不值得的人陪!

17. Learn how to ride a bike in a dress without flashing anyone.

18. Spend a few hours every weekend wandering through a new neighborhood without any specific purpose in mind.

19. Take three days to respond to people who write to you. 等三天才回信

20. Don't apologize for the delayed response. 讓人等, 不用道歉

21. Go to a museum to look at "art", by which we mean "handsome men with sensitive souls and a great collection of Merino wool sweaters that they regularly dry clean because they have both the sense and income to do so."

22. Spend 73 euros on houseplants and kill 50 euros worth of them within the month. 花很多錢在植物上 然後讓大部分的死掉.... 🌳

23. Wear a plain white t-shirt and jeans with an absurdly expensive perfume. 穿白色Tshirt 和牛仔褲 搭配非常貴的香水

24. Question both the credibility and intellect of people who wear ballet flats.

25. Devote an irrational amount of attention to keeping your nails perfectly oval-shaped.

26. Notice the smallest details, and comment on them. 注意最小細節 然後討論他們

27. Compliment other women and mean it. 贊成其他女人, 一定要有誠意

28. In summer, carry a small bottle of facial mist with you and spritz yourself in public with wild, sensual abandon.

29. Cultivate an astounding topographical knowledge of all rooftop bars within a two-mile radius of your neighborhood.

30. Dress up, buy a newspaper, and go read it outdoors where everyone can see.

31. Even if you don't smoke, carry a lighter around so you have an excuse to chat up attractive, cigarette-smoking strangers.

32. En route home from yoga class (right after you pick up groceries from the organic co-op) stop at the tabac for a pack of light cigarettes, because #healthyliving #lifeisshort #sergegainsbourglife. 瑜珈課下課回家的路上, 在剛買了有機菜後, 買一包香菸 因為 #人生很短 #健康生活 🚬

33. Insist that you "just don't understand" people who actually queue up for hours just to get a table at that trendy new Italian place that refuses to take reservations. 一直強調你不懂怎麼會有人可以去排隊好幾個小時為了在最紅新開的餐廳得到位子.

34. Send your unemployed best friend to get in the line at 5pm. (Love you, Chloé!!) 請您沒有工作的朋友下午5點就去排隊…

35. Plan your commute based on which Métro line has the hottest dudes (lines 1, 8, and 12). 計畫您的通車路線根據哪一個捷運線有最帥的帥哥

36. Go to your grandma for love advice. 需要討論愛情的時候 去找你阿媽

37. Wear matching underwear. 穿搭配的內衣 👙

38. Convince yourself that it's your "natural sense of curiosity" that compels you to watch your neighbors through their windows, and not just the fact that you're nosy AF.
說服自己 一直看鄰居在做什麼 其實只是一般好奇心而已 而不是妳很愛管閒事...

39. Maintain that you are a romantic and an idealist but also realistic, modern, and highly practical, and so that is why you finally decided to just swallow your pride and download Tinder, and anyway you shouldn't have to justify yourself to anyone, and also your friend Marie met her boyfriend on an app and they're practically engaged, so, ta gueule.

40. Buy a striped shirt. 買一件 有條文的Tshirt.....

#法國 #文化 #怎麼當法國女人 #法國女人 #插畫 #Illustration

从老公的角度看试管婴儿疗程

当一对夫妻要做 #IVF试管疗程时，做丈夫的应该用什么态度来面对？常常有网友告诉我说，我的老公精子不好，可是他还是不能戒烟戒酒，好不配合。要知道，不孕症不只是女人的责任，男人也是有责任。这篇文章，是以男人的角度出发，里面分享身为丈夫应该如何帮助太太一起度过疗程，文章是英文内容，是奥莉爸爸写的，奥莉爸不会中文。分享给大家😊

IVF Journey, A Husband’s Perspective

Hi all, before reading further I would like to say this is NOT an instruction or tips for IVF and hopefully readers will understand my poorly written English. This is my journey as a father of the IVF baby girl. Why am I sharing all this? It is because my wife had a Facebook page of her IVF journey at https://facebook.com/ivfjourney2015/ and she told me that majorities (not all but most) feedback indicate husband not supportive enough to commit into a journey of IVF. I’m not a true supportive husband either, least I made up my mind to make it happen.

Let’s start with “Why IVF?”
We went for a fertilization test and results with;
Husband: Teratospermia (Human language, sperm is weak for fertilization process)
Wife: Unexplained infertility (I think this is easy to understand, there is for the confirming reason for this result and we don’t go for further test after it because it will consumes too much time and money)

We married and planned to have children late 2011, both our ages were 37 in 2015 because of late marriage. My wife introduced IVF because she does not want to give up and feels regretful in future and so do I. Maybe because I did too many regretful things in the past, now I do not want this happened to my wife. At least I do it better then ignoring it.

Preparation for IVF
Financially, I know it will involve amount of 20k – 30k “Ringgit Malaysia” in the whole process depending on the situation and this is only one chance for me. I don’t have the money for a second attempt because I need to allocate funds for delivery if success.

Mentally, I do some studies/research on IVF. The whole journey took 50 days and in one of the process my wife needs to do a self-injection daily. I quickly asked my wife “Daily injection?! Do I need to fetch you to clinic daily to do this?” She answered “No, we need to do this ourselves”. A final question from me going to be “How?!” After we sat down and discuss, we comes into conclusion and I will do the injection for her. This was the most painful and nervous moment I ever experience by poking a needle to my wife’s belly EVERYDAY!

Lifestyle, 6 months earlier. My wife told me the NO’s, NO alcohol NO smoking NO midnight wandering NO stress. I said, I will fly up to the skies like butterfly if I able to do all the NO’s. It’s like a mission impossible. How can a man like me not go out to social with friends without alcohol and smoke? The joke was sleeping early! You want me to social with my friends in breakfast or lunch time? At this time, she softly said “I really wants to have a cute baby in future, it looks more like a family. Furthermore, I don’t want to have regretful moments in future”. All these words came out of my love (wife), her words melted in my heart deeply. I told her “Ok, we will go for it BUT you will need to promise me ONE IMPORTANT thing. No matter the process success or not we only have one attempt we need to accept the truth and live happily without regret in future.” she agreed.

Commitment, this is not some empty promise. I made a huge commitment to change my lifestyle into zero alcohol, tobacco and lesser stress. If comparing the pain and suffers my wife will take in this journey e.g., injection, medication effects, hormone changes and all the effects from pregnancies to delivery, mine looks more alike small potatoes (looks much more simple). Trust me guys, don't compare it, if you do and more likely you're going loose badly. For the sake of making a better future, I had fulfilled this commitment.

IVF Journey Phase 1 “Unskilled Husband Injection”
Day 1, doctor consults us for Buserelin injection. I need to inject this medication into my wife's belly each day sharp at 8AM. The nurse had guided me side by side to do the first injection.
Day 2, I started my first injection to my wife's belly without anyone guiding beside. Feels a bit nervous because this time I'm doing it all by myself. I try to hum some music to distract my wife's from looking at the needle while injecting but still she is looking at it.
Day 3 - Day 15, sometime the injection hurting and causes bleeding/bruise to her. I need to find a new spot to inject every time and sees her bruise makes my pain in the heart too. My injection skills improved dramatically. She even told me that she doesn't feel pain like the beginning stages.
Day 16, follow up 2nd checkup. Doctor said, everything goes smoothly and added another medication to inject called Gonal-F to take home and start injecting on day 23. This message never surprises me because I've been told earlier, but just that the price to pay for this medication is quite costly.
Day 17 - Day 22, nothing much on these days and we just stick on the plan as usual.

IVF Journey Phase 2 “Stressful Night”
Day 23, Gonal F injections start today. This needle doesn't look same as those earlier, it comes with medication in it and look like a pen.
Day 24 - Day 26, side effects of the Gonal F medications started. My wife is feeling irritation at the injection site, fullness, bloating and tenderness in the lower abdomen due to the increasing size of the ovaries. Her mood changes dramatically as I can tell, but she endures it and tell me she can handle it.
Day 27, follow up 3rd checkup. Doctor said wife has eggs total of 12 and is ready for Transvaginal oocyte retrieval "Human language, Egg retrieval" at day 31.
Day 28 - Day 29, final injection of Gonal F. At day 29 night, I inject Ovidrel to wife belly to that causes the growth and release of a mature egg (ovulation) for day 31.
Day 30, resting whole day. Finally, we had a day without injection and worrying about holding any needles. Today we wondering about the egg growth, not knowing will the eggs grow more or still the same amount of 12.
Day 31, egg retrieval. 8 egg success retrieves and I give out my sperm for oocytes selection on the same day. Wife given cyclogest for oval protection after the egg retrieval.

IVF Journey Phase 3 “Hopeful Embryo Culture & Embryo Transfer”
Day 32 - Day 35, rest at home. We had pillow talk every night concerning about the growth of an embryo. We also look at sample growth stages of an embryo from the web to see what the current growth stage is.
Day 36, another hopeful and nervous morning. Doctor tells us the result of embryo culture as below;
Total Embryo Retrieve: 8
Embryo Qualified for ICSI: 6
Embryo Success until Cleavage Stage (Day 2 – Day 4): 3
Embryo Success until Blastocyst Stage (Day 5): 2
Embryo Qualified / Recommended for Transfer: 1
Both our eyes looked at each other, knowing only 1 Blastocyst Embryo available to transfer and doctor tell the same after it. I really do not know how to express both our feelings into words here, as we expected to have at least 2 Blastocyst out of 8 embryos and only left 1. We both agreed to proceed this only 1 Blastocyst transfer as this is the only choice we had. It's more likely walking on a 100ft tall string with no supports mission, a single error will fail the mission.
After the transfer process, wife given a room to rest for few hours. A nurse came and give us adjunctive medications, injections and advice while resting at room.

IVF Journey Phase 4 “The Final Moment of IVF”
Day 37 - Day 49, after the transfer. This period is known as 2WW (2 Weeks Wait) with adjunctive medications, injections and be very careful. I just let her sleep/rest more on the bed, I served her every meal in the room. We're also nervous and curious about pregnancy results on day 44, we tested with cheap pregnancy tester and get got a double line on it and we do have a little hope and joy with this result. On day 47, again we test, but this time with expensive pregnancy tester and the results double line again! We're so hopeful and happy at this moment. We really hope this result is true until the next checkup.
Day 50, final checkup. My wife goes for the hCG test by giving a sample of blood, we waited 2 hours for the results. While waiting, nurse guide us to a room to rest. Wife slept and I sat beside concerned on the hCG test results. 2 hours later, the doctor invited us to look for him. Before doctor speaks, while we are sitting down, my wife's eyes were starring in the hCG results number and she spotted the hCG number is 452. She smiles happily while doctor tells her "You are pregnant and congratulations! Come back after 2 weeks to scan for baby heartbeats. And please go out to the counter and ring the bell!”

Just Sharing My Thoughts
By all means, I’m not bragging about my success. I would like to say if anyone is planning on IVF, teamwork is very important and husband play a very important role to increase the success rate. Sometimes, I do feel like a spectator than a participant myself because I never experience any of the medical exams but this is not true. Every injection I put on her belly, I feel the pain in my heart as bad as she has on the belly. Ok, nothing much to share in this IVF journey and next time I might be sharing another journey as a Father! Here is my little baby girl Facebook page奥莉 Olivia Baby - 梁童心心 https://fb.me/oliviababylove if you wish to see her growth updates.

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